Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.